Who Won the Recession?

Slate's Daniel Gross says the winner is McDonald's (MCD), noting that "sales growth in 2008 was greater than in 2006 and 2007. While many restaurants scaled back, it opened nearly 600 stores in 2008. And the chain has notched same-store-sales growth in each of 2009's first seven months." Which is true, though we might caution that as far as The Great Recession goes, the fat lady has not yet begun to sing.